Christine de Pizan

There are 26 extant man­u­scripts of the Book of the City of Ladies, plus 22 of the Trésor de la Cité des Dames, which she also com­pleted in 1405.

Forty seven extant man­u­scripts of the Epistre Othéa bear witness to the impor­tance of the work itself, and to the ways in which Christine became the first pro­fes­sional female author from the Middle Ages.

For our seminar, we will be reading the excerpts con­tained in The Selected Writings of Christine de Pizan: New Trans­la­tions, Crit­icism, trans­lated by Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski and Kevin Brownlee; edited by Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, New York and London: Norton (A Norton Critical Edition), 1997: p.